Scrub bucket



July 12, 1955 H. L. THIELE 2,712,668

SCRUB BUCKET FiledJune 18, 1951 INVENTOR, HAZEL L. TH/ELE,

A TTORNEK United States Patent SCRUB BUCKET Hazel L. Thiele, St. Louis, Mo.

Application June 18, 1951, Serial No. 232,080

3 Claims. (Cl. -264) This invention relates to scrub buckets, and more particularly to buckets designed for holding water for scrubhing and cleaning woodwork and windows in homes and stores and the like.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a bucket of this kind having two separate compartments, one for holding soap-water and scrub rags and the other for holding rinsing water, both of the said compartments having strainer-plates seated in spaced relation from the bottoms of the compartments for providing settling basins thereunder, and through which strainer plates dirt and sediment may pass and settle into said basins, there being means also provided for draining off the water and sediment from the setting basins, as desired.

Another object of the invention is to provide a scrub bucket of the kind referred to, the same being oblong in form, closed at sides and bottom but open at the top side, and having a central partition vertically and fixedly mounted therein transversely of its width for forming two water compartments, for soap-water and rinsing-water respectively, strainer-plates removably seated within the two compartments adjacent the bottom of the bucket but spaced therefrom, for providing settling basins there under for receiving dirt and sediment as passed through the strainer plates, drain-faucets seated through the end walls of the bucket and below the said strainer plates, for drawing oif liquids and sediment from the two compartments, and operating handles mounted upon the bucket for facilitating the use thereof.

With the stated objects in view, together with such other and additional objects and advantages as may appear from the specification, attention is directed to the accompanying drawing as exemplifying a preferred embodiment of the invention, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a scrub-bucket as constructed in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the bucket as shown in Figure 1, a bottom section of the side wa l thereof being broken out for showing the interior structural features and arrangements.

Figure 3 is an end elevational view of the bucket.

Figure 4 is detail view in plan of one of the strainer plates.

Figure 5 is a detail view in perspective of the central partition as mounted transversely and vertically within the bucket for forming and providing the two water compartments.

In practising this invention I provide a bucket represented generally at 1, the same being oblong in form and being closed at the sides and bottom as indicated at 2 and 3 respectively, and being open at the top side as indicated at 4. This bucket is divided centrally and transversely of its width by a partition 5 which is rigidly welded or otherwise seated in place between the side walls 2 of the bucket and extended down and sealed to the bottom 3 thereof, thus forming and providing a soap-water compartment 6 at one end of the bucket and a rinsing-water compartment 7 at the opposite end thereof.

Strainer-plates 8, perforated as at 8a for passing water and sediment therethrough, are removably mounted adjacent the bottoms of the two compartments 6 and 7, the same being freely seated upon supporting ledges or ribs 9 mounted upon the sides of the lower end of the centra partition 5 and upon the inner sides of the end walls of 2,712,668 Patented July 12, 1955 Ice the bucket, in horizontal alignment for the purpose. Drain faucets 10 are seated through the end walls of the bucket, below the strainer-plates 8, and these faucets are inset within the end walls of the bucket as shown, to prevent the faucets from being injured by contact with obstructions in the process of the cleaning operations. A pair of operating handles 11 and 12 are connected transversely and longitudinally to the upper or top margins of the bucket, and whereby the bucket may be tipped either longitudinally or laterally in the course of the work.

The transversely extended handle 11 may be formed by merely rolling over the upper margin of the partition 5, as indicated in the drawing. The bucket may of course be formed of any suitable material, such as tin, copper or ironsheet iron or galvanized iron, as may be found desirable for the purpose.

In use the soap water and rags as used in the cleaning operations are placed in one of the compartments, as the compartment 6, and the rinsing water placed in the other compartment 7. Dirt and sediment as deposited down into the basins-as provided below the strainer plates-may be readily drawn 01f through the faucets 10.

It is thought that the construction and use of the scrub bucket as proposed by this invention will be fully understood from the foregoing description, and while I have here shown and described a specific embodiment of the invention and specific structural features thereof, it is to be understood that specific structural changes and modifications therein may be made as may be found desirable, within the scope however of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a bucket for the purpose described, a body having a cylindrical bottom portion having its lower end closed and provided peripherally with draw-off means, an upper portion having sides rising from the top edge of the lower portion, said sides having opposed portions vertically aligned with the sides of the lower portion at one diameter of the lower portion and flaring upwardly away from each other in a plane perpendicular to said diameter, a partition having a width fitting in the lower portion and between the side vertically aligned parts of the upper portion with the side edges and lower edge of the partition sealed to the side walls of said body and the bottom wall of the bottom portion respectively so as to divide said body into two separate compartments, a pair of substantially semi-circular perforated strainer plates fitting the top of said bottom portion, and ledge members fixed on the opposite sides of the partition and the top of said lower portion whereon said strainer plates removably rest.

2. A bucket as in claim 1, wherein the draw-off means comprises a pair of drain faucets set into the cylindrical bottom portion, one at each side of the lower end of the partition inwardly of the outer wall of the bottom portion.

3. A bucket as in claim 1, wherein the draw-ofl? means comprises a drain faucet set into the cylindrical bottom portion inwardly of the outer wall of the bottom portion.

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